serp
Afrikaans edit
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serp (plural serpe)
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Catalan serp, from Latin serpēns, derived from serpō (“crawl, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-.
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serp f (plural serps)
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- “serp” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “serp” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Lower Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *sьrpъ, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥p-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian serp, Polish sierp, Czech srp, Serbo-Croatian sȓp, Russian серп (serp).
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serp m inan (diminutive serpik)
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Declension of serp
Further reading edit
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “serp”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “serp”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Maltese edit
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serp m (plural sriep, feminine serpa, diminutive srejjep)
- snake
- Kleopatra qatlet ruħha b’idejha b’gidma ta’ serp velenuż.
- Cleopatra single-handedly killed herself with the bite of a poisonous snake.
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Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *serpes, from Latin serpēns.
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serp f (plural serps)
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Upper Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *sьrpъ.
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serp m inan
- sickle (agricultural implement)
Further reading edit
- “serp” in Soblex